Some thirteen hundred years later, the poet, politician, and philosopher Dante Alighieri, banished from his native Florence and thus largely bereft of this world's goods, was nevertheless having trouble threading the eye of that needle.
The programme lacks even the tenuous connection to reality that one finds in the more kitchen sink British and Irish soaps, and thus is bereft of anything with which the viewer can properly identify.
He emerges from prison espousing a credo close to old-school socialism, only to find the downtrodden every bit as venal and self-centred as the elite, and is thus left bereft of hope - though the film retains something unexpectedly life-affirming.
I'm not entirely sure whether, for anyone of school age watching this, the outstanding message – don't learn anything, leave at 16, gain no skills, steal laptops and mobiles and thus leave people bereft, and also deal many drugs for a few years, then put on a suit and haircut and say you're a "people person" and get, with a documentary crew watching you, a job – is precisely the necessary message.
It should be no surprise that the lack of a system of effective professional education leaves our country's teachers -- and thus, their students -- bereft in the wake of ambitious reform efforts.
Many lives and careers were destroyed as a result of McCarthy's campaign, and many persons and organizations with Leftist commitments were either destroyed or driven underground, or otherwise left severely tainted and thus made an "untouchable" bereft of employment, even of one-time friends and close associates.
Nixon named William P. Rogers secretary of state largely because, as a former attorney general, he was bereft of diplomatic expertise and thus would not rival the White House-dominated foreign policy Nixon planned.
Hence, lung cancer is relatively bereft of cell-surface targets for antibody therapies.
14– 16 Thus, patients who fail on a rilpivirine-based regimen may be bereft of multiple future therapeutic options that involve the use of non-NRTIs, while simultaneously becoming resistant to both emtricitabine and lamivudine, and may be at risk of transmitting such multiply drug-resistant viruses.
It was ever thus in 72-hole tournament golf, where the opening two days are usually bereft of real drama and the main aim of those taking part is not to play themselves out of contention.
